Project Coordinator

Job Summary:

The project coordinator manages the “Education Champion Network” project team with the coordination of resources, equipment, meetings, and information. He/she organizes the project with the goal of getting it completed on time and within budget.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and monitor project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures.
• Organize, attend and participate in stakeholder meetings.
• Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
• Prepare necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Ensure project deadlines are met.
• Determine project changes.
• Provide administrative support as needed.
• Undertake project tasks as required.
• Develop project strategies.
• Ensure that the project adheres to the frameworks and that all documentation is maintained appropriately.
• Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable.
• Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.
• Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members.
• Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective.

Background and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education (or any other related field) as a minimum
• 5 years of professional working experience with NGOs/INGOs, especially in project management and/or the education field.
• Communication and reporting skills, preferably from a multi-cultural environment.
• Strong character traits, including team work, striving for high performance, emotional stability, resilience, adaptability, and ability to handle stress, strong initiative and self-motivation, cultural and gender sensitivity.
• Working cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, and making decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Positively influencing team members to achieve results that are in the best interest of the beneficiaries.
• Having detail-oriented reporting skills.
• Performing under pressure.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with excellent command of spoken and written English and Arabic.
• Strong commitment to safeguarding policies.

 Computer Skills:

• Microsoft office – all applications
• Software applications required for daily operations

NB : Lost has a zero tolerance to sexual Exploitation and abuse of beneficiaries. Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the code of conduct, that enshrines principles of PSEA, always (Both during work hours and outside work hours). Familiarization with, and adherence to, the code of conduct is an essential requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training. All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause .